長文にお付き合いくださいまして、どうもありがとうございました。近いうちに皆様のお子様や皆さんにお会い出来ますことを楽しみにしております。リチャード・ササキ（日本語訳：武藤哲司）Hello, my name is Mr. Richard Sasaki; I am a mathematics teacher at GKA Secondary school.I’d like to tell you about one of my previous lessons in maths which was a review on algebra. Algebra is a big thing which is new to the 7th graders and they learn lots of new things about the world of mathematics. As a review, the class was split into teams where small groups of students worked on a card puzzle at each station. Students had to match expressions with their simplified results by putting cards together with their correct counterpart.

I really think that mathematics is a fun and exciting thing that can be learned by anyone if the information is made clear enough and they try hard. New concepts can take a while to move from the short-term memory to the long-term. Reiteration is important and topics will also be reviewed and taught with your Japanese mathematics teacher!

I really like mathematics, for me one of the most interesting elements of it is probability. A wide topic where concepts start at around 3rd grade and continue through to university and beyond into the workplace! The law of randomness is a fun and exciting thing, risk and luck is what makes games fun!Teaching is very rewarding and one point with mathematics is either you understand the topic or you don’t. There really is a very fine line between them and if you are kind of sure that you understand it then you probably don’t. It’s always important to ask questions and almost always it results with the student going “Ah!” and that’s that, it’s clicked and they now understand. It’s nice being able to transfer your knowledge to another person.

Thank you very much for reading what I have had to see and hope to see you in the near future!Richard Sasaki